John demabest



J. 'DEMAREST.

CISTBRN FOR WATER GLOSBTS.

N0. 386,917. Pqtented July 31, 1888.

N. PETERS. MW. Waliinlhn. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN DEMAREST, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE J. L. MOTT IRON WORKS, OF SAME PLACE.

CISTERN FOR WATER-CLOSETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 386,917, dated July 31, 1888.

Application filed August 26, 1887. Serial No. 247,915. No model.)

To all whom it may concern: The wire or chain is connected to the Be it known that I, JOHN DEMAREST, of the Seat of the closet or other moving part, and 50 city and State of New York, have invented an when the seat is depressed the chain 10 draws Improvement in Oisternsfor ater-Closets, of down that end of the lever, elevating the 5 which the following is a specification. weighted end, and bringing the hanging hook Valves for water-closet cisterns have been D down, so that its point drops in below the made with a float that sustains the valve after button-head N. Hence when the person rises 5 such valve has been lifted until th water in from the seat or the chain N is liberated, the the cistern has descended sufficiently to allow weight of the lever descends, the hook is lifted,

[ the valve to seal itself. A valv f thi ha and it lifts the valve off its seat, and the float acter is shown in Letters Pat nt N 245,318, raises the valve-stem until the button-head is granted August 9, 1881, to J hm R b t arrested by the finger G, and the pivot of the 60 has been usual heretofore to actuate this kind h v g v d in the arc of a circle the of valve by a handpull after using the closet. 1100k itself drops down vertically y g y.

is My present improvement is made for actnand is y from the P of the button-heed ating the float-valve automatically by the 010s 33 hi descends y the fell of the fleet, end the et-seat, or by a moving platform upon hi h valve closes without being interfered with by 6 the person stands, Or by the l s t (1001', so the hook, and the parts are ready for the next that when the person rises or leaves the closet Operation- 2c the valve will be lifted and the float will sus I claim as y i11v enti0n tain the same forthe desired time duringwhieh The eemhlhetleh, Wlth the Water 010867 the water is to run, cistern and a button-headed valve-stein, and a 70 In the drawings, Figur 1 i a ti l valve and float connected to the valve and tion of a closet-cistern and a float-valve and ehsteihihg the same when raised, of e hWel actnatinglever. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same, pivoted P the cistern ehd hevihg e finger and Fig. 3 shows the lever depressed and the above the h ehde plveted hehglhg h k under th b t h i hook upon the lever, the said hook being 7 The cistern A is of. any desired size or charadapted to engage the bhhteh'heeded Velvet d f thi i t the fl hi i stem when the lever is depressed and to fall H extends to the closet, and at the upper end away m held bhtheh'heed eftel the Valve of thi i i a t fo t valve 1 to which has been lifted, siib stantially as set forth. i tt h d fl t, K and t is f bl to 2. The combination, with the Water-closet 8o apply a t b l Shem, L to the valve and cistern and a button-headed valve-stem, anda float, so that the samebecoine an air-pipe and Valve h heat? eehheeted P the Valve and an overflow-pipe to the cistern, and at the Sustain ng thesame when raised, of a weighted per end of this pipe or stem L there is a conilevel plveted p the cistern and having eh l fl or b t h h N elongated eye and a finger, 6, above the valve- 8 The leverSis pivoted at3 upon the cistern, h e hehgihg h Within the y and a and the weighted end S is snflicient to raise p h eehheetlhg the hook to thelevel and 40 the valve and float against the prcssn re of the he Ohe slde 0f the Velveetem raised, 50 column f water i the cistel-lh that the hook will fall from the button-head The hook D is suspended from the pivot 4 B hheYelve'htem after the Valve has been 9 upon the lever S, and it is preferable to make e i substantially as set? forththis lever with a long eye, as shown in Fig. 2, slgned by we B1115 18th dflyof August 1887- within which the hook D hangs, and this eye JOHN DEMAREST- is large enough to receive within it the button \vlthessesi N; and there is also a finger, 6, that extends KNIGHT, out over the buttonhcad. INTON SMITH. 

